pytorch/benchmarks/README.md
Divyansh Khanna e6d8ed02cb PyTorch Data Sampler benchmark (#156974)
## Motivation
Many PRs optimizing samplers (for eg https://github.com/pytorch/pytorch/pull/147706, https://github.com/pytorch/pytorch/pull/137423) are leveraging an adhoc script for benchmarking samplers. The script and outputs are often copied over in PRs. We want to begin centralizing benchmarks for torch.utils.data components.

## What ?
* This PR adds a new sub-folder in `benchmarks`  for `data`. This is aimed to cover benchmarking scripts for torch.utils.data components like dataloader and sampler.
* Specifically, this PR includes a simple script to time samplers. This is often "copy-pasted" in PRs optimizing samplers. Having it in a centralized location should prevent that, and allow a common standard.

## Output
```
Benchmark Results:
+--------------+-------------+----------------+-----------+-----------+
|   Batch Size | Drop Last   |   Original (s) |   New (s) | Speedup   |
+==============+=============+================+===========+===========+
|            4 | True        |         0.004  |    0.0088 | -119.62%  |
+--------------+-------------+----------------+-----------+-----------+
|            4 | False       |         0.0083 |    0.009  | -9.23%    |
+--------------+-------------+----------------+-----------+-----------+
|            8 | True        |         0.003  |    0.0074 | -147.64%  |
+--------------+-------------+----------------+-----------+-----------+
|            8 | False       |         0.0054 |    0.0075 | -38.72%   |
+--------------+-------------+----------------+-----------+-----------+
|           64 | True        |         0.0021 |    0.0056 | -161.92%  |
+--------------+-------------+----------------+-----------+-----------+
|           64 | False       |         0.0029 |    0.0055 | -92.50%   |
+--------------+-------------+----------------+-----------+-----------+
|          640 | True        |         0.002  |    0.0055 | -168.75%  |
+--------------+-------------+----------------+-----------+-----------+
|          640 | False       |         0.0024 |    0.0062 | -161.35%  |
+--------------+-------------+----------------+-----------+-----------+
|         6400 | True        |         0.0021 |    0.0055 | -160.13%  |
+--------------+-------------+----------------+-----------+-----------+
|         6400 | False       |         0.0021 |    0.0068 | -215.46%  |
+--------------+-------------+----------------+-----------+-----------+
|        64000 | True        |         0.0042 |    0.0065 | -55.29%   |
+--------------+-------------+----------------+-----------+-----------+
|        64000 | False       |         0.0029 |    0.0077 | -169.56%  |
+--------------+-------------+----------------+-----------+-----------+
```
Pull Request resolved: https://github.com/pytorch/pytorch/pull/156974
Approved by: https://github.com/ramanishsingh
2025-06-27 04:49:43 +00:00

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PyTorch Benchmarks

This folder contains scripts that produce reproducible timings of various PyTorch features.

It also provides mechanisms to compare PyTorch with other frameworks.

Setup environment

Make sure you're on a machine with CUDA, torchvision, and pytorch installed. Install in the following order:

# Install torchvision. It comes with the pytorch stable release binary
pip3 install torch torchvision

# Install the latest pytorch master from source.
# It should supersede the installation from the release binary.
cd $PYTORCH_HOME
python setup.py build develop

# Check the pytorch installation version
python -c "import torch; print(torch.__version__)"

Benchmark List

Please refer to each subfolder to discover each benchmark suite. Links are provided where descriptions exist: